Exam Study Vocabulary Set 4

EXAM STUDY VOCABULARY SET# 4 1. abhor (v.) detest You, my creator, abhor me; what hope can I gather from your fellow creatures, who owe me nothing? (Frankenstein, Mary Shelley)

2. abide (v.) to remain; (v.) to agree to, usually unwillingly Well, you won't abide here long, I can tell you. (The Iron Heel, Jack Londong) I can't abide new places mysen: things is allays awk'ard,--narrow-wheeled waggins, belike, and the stiles all another sort, an' oatcake i' some places, tow'rt th' head o' the Floss, there. (The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot)

3. abject (adj.) pitiful But the words were hardly uttered, before the smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below. (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson)

4. cordial(adj.) warm, friendly When she heard of his arrival she almost ran into the drawing room, flushed and beaming with a more than cordial smile. (War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy)

5. coronation (n.) the act of crowning, as with a monarch I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation, contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. (Typee, Herman Melville)

6. corpulence(adj.) extreme obesity He was a man of somewhat less than average height, inclined to corpulence, with his hair, worn long, arranged over the scalp so as to conceal his baldness. (Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham)

7. indefatigable (adj.) incapable of defeat or failure But not content with this good deed, the indefatigable house again bestirred itself: Samuel and all his Sons --how many, their mother only knows --and under their immediate auspices, and partly, I think, at their expense, the British government was induced to send the sloop-of-war Rattler on a whaling voyage of discovery into the South Sea. (Moby Dick, Herman Melville)

8. indignation (n.) anger caused by an injustice Elizabeth could not see Lady Catherine without recollecting that, had she chosen it, she might by this time have been presented to her as her future niece; nor could she think, without a smile, of what her ladyship's indignation would have been. (Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen)

9. paramount(adj.) of greatest importance We have been long expecting that you would tell us something about the family life of your citizens--how they will bring children into the world, and rear them when they have arrived, and, in general, what is the nature of this community of women and children-for we are of opinion that the right or wrong management of such matters will have a great and paramount influence on the State for good or for evil. (The Republic, Plato)

10. pariah (n.) an outcast Shortly Tom came upon the juvenile pariah of the village, Huckleberry Finn, son of the town drunkard. (Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain)

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EXAM STUDY VOCABULARY SET# 4 QUIZ DIRECTIONS: Math each word with its definition by writing the letter of the definition in the blank in front of the word it defines.

_____ 1. abhor

A. warm, friendly

_____ 2. abide

B. detest

_____ 3. abject

C. extreme obesity

_____ 4. cordial

D. anger caused by an injustice

_____ 5. coronation

E. pitiful

_____ 6. corpulence

F. an outcast

_____ 7. indefatigable unwillingly

G. to remain; to agree to, usually

_____ 8. indignation

H. of greatest importance

_____ 9. paramount

I. the act of crowning, as with a monarch

_____ 10. pariah

J. incapable of defeat or failure

EXAM STUDY VOCABULARY SET# 4 (Answer Key) DIRECTIONS: Math each word with its definition by writing the letter of the definition in the blank in front of the word it defines.

__B___ 1. abhor

A. warm, friendly

__G___ 2. abide

B. detest

__E___ 3. abject

C. extreme obesity

__A___ 4. cordial

D. anger caused by an injustice

__I___ 5. coronation

E. pitiful

__C___ 6. corpulence

F. an outcast

__J___ 7. indefatigable

G. to remain; to agree to, usually unwillingly

__D___ 8. indignation

H. of greatest importance

__H__

I. the act of crowning, as with a monarch

9. paramount

__F___ 10. pariah

J. incapable of defeat or failure